NutriB2

Studying nutrition as critical link between Biodiversity and Bee health - a joint BiodivERsA project

[NutriB2 @NutriB2]

🐝 To celebrate #WorldBeeDay 🐝, we invite you to follow our new Butterfly project here:
https://t.co/ne6Z2y17R2

and here:
https://t.co/AfnscC0Mfy

And here's a song for you! 🎶to bee or not to be🎵:
https://t.co/M0USMCqOic

#BeeDay2025 #pollinator

[Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) @BiodiversaPlus]

🐝🌸 @NutriB2 (#BiodivHealth) finds that larger bees benefit from less intensive land use, while specialised feeders thrive in heterogeneous landscapes. Effective conservation requires detailed knowledge of pollinator resources👇

[Michał Filipiak @MichaelFilipiak]

3/3 Importantly, wind-pollinated plants (trees+grasses) contribute greatly to a bee's biogeochemical niche, providing key nutrients. This highlights the importance of complex landscape conservation beyond traditional seed mixtures:
https://t.co/cmLcgwPwSV

[Michał Filipiak @MichaelFilipiak]

2/2 Our current focus is on the bees’ roles as pollinators, but bees’ roles goes beyond pollination, and even a single species can make an important contribution to nutrient cycling by translocating much nutrients from flowers:
https://t.co/cmLcgwPwSV

[Michał Filipiak @MichaelFilipiak]

1/2 In this preprint (under review), I use the example of a bee to show that pollinivores may be important vectors of nutrient movement in food webs, exceeding the amounts of nutrients translocated and partitioned in food webs by other herbivores:
https://t.co/cmLcgwPwSV

[Michał Filipiak @MichaelFilipiak]

Studying the effects of the sodium/potassium ratio on bees can provide new insights into the dynamics that link bees, plants and their environment.

See 3-minute video:
https://t.co/JJVIBOMEsX

and the full story is here:
https://t.co/kHrG5VpIIn

@FilipiakZuza @JeffOllerton

[Science in Poland @ScienceinPoland]

Bees evolved from carnivorous ancestors. In the course of evolution, they had to adapt to a plant-based diet. Scientists investigate dietary problems of bees.
#bees @JagiellonskiUni @UniNorthants @PAN_akademia
https://t.co/3SJwG2AQrz

[Prof. Jeff Ollerton - @[email protected] @JeffOllerton]

Plant-based diets are a problem for bees! A new study of the significance of the ratio of food K:Na in bee ecology and evolution just published.

https://t.co/gv1U3uD8vW

#bees #pollinators #ecology #biodiversity

@DaveGoulson @JaneCStout @MichaelFilipiak @FilipiakZuza

[Leonhardt lab @PlantInsectTUM]

Why we believe that research across disciplines is crucial for understanding insect physiology, behavior and ecology is nicely illustrated in Fabian's latest publication in TREE: https://t.co/ppYPIeRVDK

[Leonhardt lab @PlantInsectTUM]

Have you ever wondered about all the things that could be done wrong when analyzing fatty acids in pollen? Check out our new paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: https://t.co/qpMA9GBQUv

[Leonhardt lab @PlantInsectTUM]

Did you know that land-use management can indirectly affect flower visitation by altering floral resource quality? Check out our new study led by @lrusso08 : https://t.co/3U9km8HVWz

[Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution @FrontEcolEvol]

New Research: A common protocol for reliable comparison of pollen fatty acid profiles: highlighting pitfalls and proposing a methodology for ecological research: Introduction

Pollen is an important tissue in plants that plays a vital role in… #Ecology https://t.co/PaSmRMpaGD

[Ecology @ESAEcology]

A new Concepts & Synthesis piece in @ESAEcology:

Uncovering the significance of the ratio of food K:Na in bee ecology and evolution

https://t.co/d6aVTtDG4N

With #OpenData in @ZENODO_ORG

#WildBees #Pollinators #Ionomics #EcologicalStoichiometry

[Michał Filipiak @MichaelFilipiak]

@FilipiakZuza @JeffOllerton Main benefits and challenges shaping the physiology, behaviour, life history and evolution of insects employing feeding strategies of carnivory (left panel), pollinivory (centre panel) and herbivory (right panel).

Source: https://t.co/kHrG5VpaSP

[Michał Filipiak @MichaelFilipiak]

Bees evolved from carnivorous ancestors, with a notable distinction in their diet: a higher K:Na ratio in nectar/pollen vs animal tissues. K:Na impacts bee ecology and evolution, shaping bee interactions with plants & behavior.
@FilipiakZuza @JeffOllerton
https://t.co/kHrG5VpaSP

[NutriB2 @NutriB2]

@osterman_julia ⬇️ is working with us on some very interesting data 📊 (we're keeping it secret for now, but it's worth waiting for 🤫😉🐝).

[Alexandra-Maria Klein @naturealexk]

Julia Osterman @JuliaOsterman is a guest researcher in our group #NatureScientistsUFR @UniFreiburg. She is based at the @goteborgsuni and part of @GGBC_GU. Her interest in bees started with #beekeeping and honey bee health 🐝 https://t.co/SPJyvha9A0

[Leonhardt lab @PlantInsectTUM]

One of these studies where we expected one thing, and found the opposite: bumble bees cannot taste several phytosterols in pollen, despite their clear importance for bees: https://t.co/BNtoJGuMo6 First paper of Carmen and Marielle! Great job!

[Clémentine Leroy @Clm_Leroy]

Let me introduce you to my first phD article 📝published in @conphysjournal discussing the nice potential of physiology in conservation challenges for wild bees. Hopping this would be beneficial for them 🐝
https://t.co/U0OYJI5Xyt

[NutriB2 @NutriB2]

New paper📜 by 👩‍🔬 @Clm_Leroy et al @INRAE_France.

Physiological changes occur earlier than demographic changes, so physiological traits can help predict and forecast future population trends = a more proactive approach to wild bee conservation ❤️🐝:

https://t.co/gQi86Iowbo

[Leonhardt lab @PlantInsectTUM]

Check this out! Really cool work and paper by PhD candidate Shao Xiong - first to set up camera traps to catch (i) assassin bugs (Reduviidae) hunting resin collecting stingless bees and (i) resin collecting wasps in a tropical lowland rainforest in SEA: https://t.co/mkF66tGfwO